Introduction to Future Directions for Monetary Policies in East Asia
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A critical part of this reassessment involved monetary policy and, its close cousin in an open economy, exchange-rate policy. Before the crisis, a de facto currency peg against the United States dollar formed the centrepiece of the monetary policy regimes of many of the countries in the region. But the crisis convinced almost everyone, if they had not been convinced by earlier crises, that such softly pegged exchange rates eventually prove unsustainable in a world of high capital mobility.
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